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“This is not me doing you a favor, you’d be doing me one. And Zairn one too. He asked me to oversee the club opening and then we went and got engaged and moved to New York.”

“He didn’t think to pull the plug?”

“It still means something to me, my city. We might live in the Big Apple, but Chicago will always have a place in my heart. Z knows that. He cares ‘cause I care.”

“What else can you make him do?”

Roxie cackled. “I plan to spend the rest of my life finding out.”

“Next time we take a weekend trip, I want to meet this Casanova. I’m not sure there’s a mortal man capable of containing you.”

“Maybe he’s not mortal. You know, I never asked.”

“Not something that comes up much in the course of a date.”

“You know we don’t really do that either.” Roxie bent a knee to raise a foot. “Huh, not much of a relationship, is it?” Her foot hit the floor again. “We have a lot of sex.”

“That’s the main thing,” she joked. Her cellphone rang. “One sec.” Lying on the bed, she stretched to the other side and dragged her phone across the bed, hitting answer as she did. “Hello?” She pressed speaker. “Hello, sorry.”

“Button?”

“Hey!” she called, her grin matching Roxie’s. “Are you calling to break up with me?”

“Calling to break—no, why would you think—”

“These things come in threes,” Roxie said.

“Ms. Kyst,” Xander exclaimed. “Sticking around in Chicago?”

“For another day or two,” Roxie said. “‘Til I can be sure you’ll treat this gem right.”

“You better be bringing her over to our side. You poison my girl and I poison your guy.”

“Good luck with that. I know where my guy’s bodies are buried and have all kinds of kinky sex tapes to blackmail him with. He’ll be in my bed for a thousand years. And if you break this beauty’s heart, I’m taking her to California as my sister wife. I call him Casanova for a reason, trust me, he can handle it.”

“I take care of all those duties, Roxanna.”

“Take care of them quickly,” Roxie said, pushing off the doorframe. “We have an appointment with a gang of hotties.”

Roxie winked and closed the door as she departed.

“Button?”

“She’s gone,” she said, picking up the phone and taking it off speaker as she lay down. “How are you?”

“How am I? What was she talking about things in threes?”

“I’ve had an eventful twenty-four hours. Not even twenty-four hours. It would be like twenty hours. No, damn, less, closer to twelve hours. God, that’s depressing. How life can just—”

“Babe!”

“I got fired,” she said, leaving enough time to sigh before continuing. “It’s embarrassing. I never thought I’d be embarrassed to tell you. I didn’t do anything, it wasn’t some dramatic exit. Though, it could’ve been. Maybe I should go back there and make a scene.” She laughed. “It hit me out of nowhere, you know? It’s crazy. One minute you’re secure, never thinking twice about how you’ll make rent, then wham, you’re a day away from a box in the street.”

“They fired you?”

The depth of that growl was new.

“It’s no big deal,” she said. “I wasn’t madly in love with the company or anything. It just sucks to give your loyalty to something that spits it back at you. And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, Tia announced Bryan’s moving in with her.”

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